Updated timeline:
2012 – AG DeWine issued press release announcing LE had discovered “a major marijuana grow site” in Pike County with suspected ties to a Mexican drug cartel. During the discovery, 1200 plants were destroyed by investigators and two abandoned campsites were located, which they believe had belonged to Mexican nationals. (http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?306329-Media-amp-Timeline-NO-DISCUSSION-Pike-Co-OH-8-Family-Members-Murdered>)
Feb 2016: 38-pound box of marijuana mailed from CA discovered at Piketon Post Office, investigation leads to discovery of "shatter" operation. No arrests are made. No suspects are named.
10 days prior to murders: A Facebook threat is made by a teen saying he will "Go up to Union Hill and take them all out" (paraphrasing, but it was close to that)
4 days prior to murders: Hanna R gives birth
2 days prior to murders: Woman involved in road rage incident with Chris Jr is in court and is sentenced (
8am Thursday: Dana arrives at work. She was an hour late. Find out she has to work an unexpected double shift.
11pm Thursday: Dana leaves work - Hillcrest Nursing Home - 14 miles away per CNN
Approx 11:20pm: Dana arrives home
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Sometime between 4am and 7am: All 8 victims are murdered (except possibly Kenneth)
Bodies found at 3122 UHR: Dana, Hanna Rhoden, Chris Rhoden Jr.
Bodies found at 4077 UHR: Chris Sr. and Gary (3 GSW to head)
Bodies found at 4199 URH: Frankie and Hannah Hazel Gilley
Body found near 799 LFR: Kenneth Rhoden (1 GSW to head)
(
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...y-dead-as-police-hunt-for-killer(s)-5/page55)
7:00 am Friday: Bobby Jo arrives at Chris Sr.'s house. She tells LE she arrived alone.
7:49 am Friday: Bobby Jo calls 911 to report Chris and Gary's bodies
7:53 am -- PCSO Dep. Music and Dep. Chandler are dispatched to 4077 Union Hill Road in response to the 7:49 911 call.
8:07 am -- Dep. Chandler arrived "at a neighboring residence” (Frankie’s?) where he was flagged down by a subject. Dep. Chandler advised that he needed “multiple ambulances due to multiple down at multiple residences."
8:12 am -- Dep. Music, Dep. Ball, and Maj. Evans all arrived "on scene" where they were approached by [Redacted] who stated: "there are two more dead people here." [Redacted] pointed to the residence at 4077 Union Hill.
8:21 am --PCSO request for assistance sent to BCI (Source: CNN)
12:13 pm -- at least 4 BCI Crime Scene Unit trucks are seen at the intersection of Hwy 32 and Union Hill Road headed towards the crime scenes. (Source: tweet including a photo made by Gannett Ohio reporter @saranealeigh)
1:26 pm Friday: Donald Stone calls 911 to report Kenneth's body
1:36 pm -- Ohio AG Mike DeWine issues a press release: 7 people murdered in "execution-style killings"
3:41 am Saturday: Police arrive at Bobby Jo's residence and aggressively question her and 5 others
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Saturday afternoon: Another Kenneth Rhoden (brother and cousin to victims) calls 911 in Greenup KY to report being followed and chased by two men in a car (
http://www.wlwt.com/news/rhoden-fami...ports/39247458)